why do you like the vampire chronicles?
- a fellow fan
Ooh boy, this will probably be an essay blog post at some point, but, I shall endeavour to give the TLDR version to the best of my present ability. None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are and memory is a monster.
Do not ask me to recall my age, I am 20 now, though I often feel like Louis and Lestat, inhuman and haven't been human for 200 years. Plus the pandemic destroyed my sense of time.
Before the pandemic, a dear friend of mine introduced me to gothic literary vampires, I had just read Shelley's Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray of my own accord, and he cast me as Mina Murray-Harker in his production of Dracula (1897) opposite one of my best friends as Lucy Westenra himself as Jonathan and one of our aspiring villain actors as Count Dracula himself. I then got hooked on Dracula (the 1897 novel) and following that I wanted more vampires. We watched the 1994 IWTV Neil Jordan film together and I immediately took Lestat as my pathetic bi meow meow. I read the 1976 novel not that far after and started role-playing and cosplaying Lestat as soon as I understood him enough to make him my bi pathetic meow meow. I wouldn't pick up the chronicles again until catholic school and the move to Canada.
When I was in middle school I was a constant victim of bullying, mostly by the white rich kids for being brown, and vaguely gothic in inclinations and "witchy" and "other." My dad was also emotionally overbearing and expected a lot at an early age from me. He has since gotten better and I'm no longer anyone's victim, but, it's worthwhile to note I was victimized (past tense) for a long time. I've also had my fair share of misogyny + anti brown racism flung at me, and I am bi and genderqueer. For the record I forgive my middle school bullies, we were simply kids who didn't know better. Now, do better. I've also been the victim of emotional abuse and gaslighting, while it never escalated to physical that sort of violence even if emotional violence sticks with you. But as mentioned, victimized, in past tense.
I moved to Canada and suffered the indignity of the Catholic school system. I quit after a year and after their queerphobia made international news. But not before a brief run as a spiteful bi as fuck atheist and picking up The Vampire Lestat, finally.
Before the pandemic, I felt like Louis de Pointe du Lac and Mona Mayfair, during the pandemic and in catholic school I felt like Nicolas de Lenfent, following the pandemic and up til the present I aspire to be something of a Lestat de Lioncourt and Rowan Mayfair meaning less cynical, unlearning my shame, confident, clever at least intellectually but foolishly in love with the beauty of humanity. Now, we're here.
IWTV 1994 lost in adaptation
Vampire Reviews: IWTV 1994 ft @elisaintime
What Constitutes Evil?
Vampire Reviews: The Vampire Chronicles ft @elisaintime
Vampire Reviews: The Vampire Lestat ft @elisaintime
Late Interview with the Vampire author Anne Rice remembered by trans woman she helped come out.
Tagging: @covenofthearticulate, @monstersinthecosmos, @elisaintime & @the-brat-prince-1760, @dontbesylly & @i-want-my-iwtv (no pressure to reply, I just thought y'all would appreciate this story).
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CHARACTER QUESTIONNAIRE !!
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✧・゚ 𝐃𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄.
► ROWAN, MONA & MERRICK MAYFAIR.
★ ⸻ GENERAL
Name: Rowan Mayfair | Mona Mayfair | Merrick Mayfair
Alias(es): The thirteenth (13th) witch | Ophelia | practitioner of Vodou
Gender: genderqueer (she/they) | female (she/her) | demi-girl (she/they)
Age: 26+ | 20+ | 24+
Date of Birth: November 7, 1959 | October 24, 1983 | September 20, you do the math
Place of Birth: NOLA, Garden district | New Orleans, garden district | New Orleans, French quarter
Spoken Language(s): French, English, Telekinesis, ghost/demon conjuring, French Roman Catholic, foresight and spells | French, English, intersectional feminism, telekinesis, ghost/demon conjuring, spells, and ghost hunting | Haitian creole, French, English, aave, ghost/demon conjuring, spells & ghost hunting
Orientation: bi (male lean) | bi (non-discriminating!) | bi (female lean)
Occupation(s): that’s Miss Doctor Rowan Mayfair, PHD to you! | running the coven of the articulate when Lestat becomes histrionic 🤷♀️ | practitioner of Haitian Vodou & Talamasca member
★ ⸻ APPEARANCE
Eye colour: green | blue | brown
Hair colour: blonde (canonically) (black in the TV show) | auburn/red | dark black
Height: 5’8” | 5’0” | 5’4”
Other: the emerald necklace connecting her through a deal her great ancestor, Suzanne Mayfair made to the preternatural ghost/demon Lasher akin to a whip and the sound of the wind. | dresses exceedingly feminine, performing her femininity like a Shakespeare thespian or drag Queen/King. | At minimum Merrick always has a book on hand and a hair accessory in her creole curls.
★ ⸻ FAVORITE
Colour: purple the queenly kind | baby blue | Mayfair (emerald) green.
Song: Rowan | Mona | Merrick
Food: beignets | gumbo | shrimp po’boy
Drink: champagne | wine | bourbon
★ ⸻ HAVE THEY...
Passed university: with above average marks! | no - but more than capable of doing so! | no but only because time never let her
Had sex: yes | yes - perhaps… a lot | yes
Had Sex in Public: no | don’t tempt her sounds thrilling | no
Gotten pregnant/someone else pregnant: yes | no | no
Kissed a boy: yes | yes | yes
Kissed a girl: yes | yes | yes
Gotten tattoos: no | no | no
Gotten piercings: yes | yes | yes (ears for all of the above) Merrick, also pierced her nose
Been in love: yes | yes | yes
Stayed up 24+ hours: yes | yes | no
★ ⸻ ARE THEY...
A virgin: no | no | that’s a colonizer social construct.
A cuddler: yes | yes | no
A kisser: kinda? | yes | depends who you ask
Scared easily: no | no | no
Jealous easily: no | no | yes
Trustworthy: they’re Mayfair women, the answer is collectively no.
Submissive: yes | switch | yes
Dominant: in the mental sense | switch | no
In love: as a whole, not yet, they’d know.
Relationship status: collectively? It’s messy and complicated, of course Quinn Blackwood, Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt count! In that case… taken but complicated. Let us not begin on the family ghost.
★ ⸻ RANDOM QUESTIONS
TW for self-harm/suicide mention.
Have they harmed themselves: yes | not deliberately | (yes in canon) no (in my portrayal)
Thought of suicide/ideated: yes | yes | yes
Attempted suicide: yes | no | yes
Wanted to kill someone: yes but shush | he deserved it! | with good reason
Have/had a job: yes | of a kind | yes
Fears: a family legacy she can’t outrun, Lasher, violent men, the church, the state, and the future and being “enough.” | existential stuff, none of your concern | misogyny, racism, violence, injustice, the burden and blessing of family, and upholding her mothers legacy.
★ ⸻ FAMILY
A mess, that puts the Ptolemaic dynasty to shame.
See here.
On the Mayfairs and Lasher.
Lives of the Mayfair Witches.
Bonus, these threes collective playlist.
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